pkglog 1.1

Reports log of package updates

PKGLOG - Linux utility to output list of changed packages

This is a Linux command line utility to output a list of packages installed, removed, upgraded, or downgraded. It should be able to parse the package log formats used by the common Linux distributions. Example output is:

$ pkglog
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2021-01-15 10:52:18 alsa-card-profiles   14.1-1 -> 14.1-2
2021-01-15 10:52:18 libpulse             14.1-1 -> 14.1-2
2021-01-15 10:52:18 pulseaudio           14.1-1 -> 14.1-2
2021-01-15 10:52:18 mutter               3.38.2+7+gfbb9a34f2-1 -> 3.38.3-1
2021-01-15 10:52:18 pulseaudio-bluetooth 14.1-1 -> 14.1-2
2021-01-15 10:52:18 gnome-shell          1:3.38.2+22+g3a343a8aa-1 -> 1:3.38.3-1
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2021-01-15 16:16:26 gridsome-cli 0.3.3-1 removed
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2021-01-16 07:11:33 httpie                2.3.0-3 -> 2.3.0-4
2021-01-16 07:11:33 nodejs                15.5.1-1 -> 15.6.0-1
2021-01-16 07:11:33 glib2                 2.66.4-1 -> 2.66.4-2
2021-01-16 07:11:33 glib2-docs            2.66.4-1 -> 2.66.4-2
2021-01-16 07:11:33 gtk-update-icon-cache 1:4.0.1-1 -> 1:4.0.1-2
2021-01-16 07:11:33 qt5-base              5.15.2-2 -> 5.15.2-3
2021-01-16 07:11:33 kdiagram              2.7.0-1 -> 2.8.0-1
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2021-01-17 07:13:15 nano         5.4-1 -> 5.5-1
2021-01-17 07:13:15 mesa         20.3.2-2 -> 20.3.3-1
2021-01-17 07:13:15 rav1e        0.3.5-1 -> 0.4.0-1
2021-01-17 07:13:15 tk           8.6.11-1 -> 8.6.11.1-1
2021-01-17 07:13:15 vulkan-intel 20.3.2-2 -> 20.3.3-1
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2021-01-18 06:51:45 perl-datetime-timezone      2.35-2 -> 2.44-1
2021-01-18 06:51:46 python-h11                  0.11.0-1 -> 0.12.0-1
2021-01-18 06:51:46 python-pkginfo              1.6.1-3 -> 1.7.0-1
2021-01-18 06:51:46 adobe-source-code-pro-fonts 2.032ro+1.052it+1.012var-1 -> 2.038ro+1.058it+1.018var-1
2021-01-18 06:51:46 alsa-card-profiles          14.1-2 -> 14.2-1
2021-01-18 06:51:46 imagemagick                 7.0.10.57-1 -> 7.0.10.58-1
2021-01-18 06:51:46 libbytesize                 2.4-3 -> 2.4-4
2021-01-18 06:51:46 libblockdev                 2.24-3 -> 2.25-1
2021-01-18 06:51:46 libibus                     1.5.23+3+gaa558de8-2 -> 1.5.23+3+gaa558de8-3
2021-01-18 06:51:46 libmm-glib                  1.14.8-1 -> 1.14.10-1
2021-01-18 06:51:46 libpulse                    14.1-2 -> 14.2-1
2021-01-18 06:51:46 modemmanager                1.14.8-1 -> 1.14.10-1
2021-01-18 06:51:46 pulseaudio                  14.1-2 -> 14.2-1
2021-01-18 06:51:46 pulseaudio-bluetooth        14.1-2 -> 14.2-1
2021-01-18 06:51:46 python-urllib3              1.26.1-1 -> 1.26.2-1
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2021-01-18 07:21:10 ### LAST SYSTEM BOOT ###
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2021-01-18 07:57:48 tree 1.8.0-2 installed

1. By default, only package updates over the last 30 days are shown. You can choose to specify a specific date, or number of days back, or for all time.

2. Updates are grouped together by time (all updates with less than a 2 minute gap between any of them) so you can distinguish the group of packages updated each time you did a system update.

3. The LAST SYSTEM BOOT line shows you which packages have been updated since the last boot, e.g. if the linux kernel package was since updated you may decide to reboot asap. In the above example, only the tree package has been installed since the last boot.

4. You can specify a package name and only updates to that package are shown. See the USAGE section below.

See the latest documentation and code at https://github.com/bulletmark/pkglog.

LOG FILE FORMATS

Parsers for the following log formats currently exist. The appropriate parser for you system is normally automatically determined. Alternatively, you can choose the log directory[s], file[s], and/or parser explicitly. A very simple parser plugin architecture is used, so creating a new parser is easy. Simply drop the parser file in the parsers/ directory and the program will automatically use it. See the current parsers for example code.

Log Parser	Default Path	Systems
apt	/var/log/apt/history*	Debian, Ubuntu, etc
dnf	/var/log/dnf.rpm.log	RedHat, Fedora, etc
pacman	/var/log/pacman.log	Arch, Manjaro, etc

USAGE

usage: pkglog [-h] [-i] [-I] [-d DAYS] [-a] [-j] [-v] [-p {pacman,apt,dnf}]
              [-t TIMEGAP] [-P PATH]
              [package]

Reports log of package updates.

positional arguments:
  package               specific package name to report

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i, --installed       show installed/removed only
  -I, --installed-only  show installed only
  -d DAYS, --days DAYS  show all packages only from given days ago (or YYYY-
                        MM-DD), default=30, -1=all
  -a, --alldays         show all packages for all days (same as "-days=-1")
  -j, --nojustify       don't right justify version numbers
  -v, --verbose         be verbose, describe upgrades/downgrades
  -p {pacman,apt,dnf}, --parser {pacman,apt,dnf}
                        log parser type, default=pacman
  -t TIMEGAP, --timegap TIMEGAP
                        max minutes gap between grouped updates, default=2
  -P PATH, --path PATH  alternate log path[s] (separate multiple using ":",
                        must be time sequenced)

Note you can set default starting arguments in ~/.config/pkglog-flags.conf.

DEFAULT ARGUMENTS

You can add default arguments to a personal configuration file ~/.config/pkglog-flags.conf. If that file exists then each line of arguments in the file will be concatenated and automatically prepended to your pkglog command line arguments.

This allow you to set default preferred starting arguments to pkglog. Type pkglog -h to see the arguments supported. E.g. echo "--days 7" >~/.config/pkglog.conf to make pkglog only display the last 7 days of updates by default.

INSTALLATION

Python 3.7 or later is required. Note pkglog is on PyPI so you can just type the following to install or upgrade:

$ sudo pip3 install -U pkglog

Arch Linux users can install pkglog from the AUR. Alternately, do the following to install from the source repository.

$ git clone http://github.com/bulletmark/pkglog
$ cd pkglog
$ sudo pip3 install -U .

UPGRADE

$ cd pkglog  # Source dir, as above
$ git pull
$ sudo pip3 install -U .

REMOVAL

$ sudo pip3 uninstall pkglog

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2020 Mark Blakeney. This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for more details.